Does Insurance Development Affect Financial Market in Developing Countries?

Relwendé Sawadogo and Samuel Guérineau (samuel.guerineau@uca.fr)
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Samuel Guérineau: CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of insurance on stock market development in 37 developing countries over the period 1987-2011. By controlling for the potential endogeneity bias by System GMM estimator, we show that the insurance premiums significantly increase the stock market value traded. This result is robust to the use of alternative measure of stock market development and control of the political and legal system quality. In addition, the results highlight that an improvement in property rights promotes the deepening of the financial market. Thus, the results argue for insurance policies promoting and an improvement of the legal environment to benefit from the financial market development.

Keywords: Stock market; Insurance premiums; Developing countries; Panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-01-28
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Published in International Finance and Banking, 2016, 3 (1), ⟨10.5296/ifb.v3i1.9533⟩

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Related works:
Working Paper: Does Insurance Development Affect the Financial Markets in developing countries? (2015)
Working Paper: Does Insurance Development Affect the Financial Markets in developing countries? (2015)
Working Paper: Does Insurance Development Affect the Financial Markets in developing countries? (2015)
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DOI: 10.5296/ifb.v3i1.9533

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